Page description languages

These formats describe how a page that is to be printed looks like. It's mostly used as final format before the data is sent to the printer. See also Document, Markup, and Electronic Publishing formats.

List of formats

• DVI TeX/LaTeX
• EMF, a variant of WMF as used by Windows in print spooling
• ESC/P, Epson Standard Code for Printers
• ESC/POS, Epson printer commands for Point of Sale systems
• HP-GL
• IJPDS (Inkjet Printer Data Stream; Kodak Versamark)
• OpenXPS (Open XML Paper Specification)
• PCL (e.g. PCL5, PCL6 used in laser printers)
• PDF (derived from PostScript)
• PDFXML (Adobe project for to create an XML-friendly representation of PDF)
• PS, EPS (Adobe PostScript)
• PPD, describes the printer
• SCODL
• Zj-Stream (Zenographics)

Related items

• PostScript Printer Description

Resources

• Wikipedia page about page description languages